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Google Tech Discuss (far more info under) August 18, 2011 Introduced by Steve Hsu. How do genes impact cognitive ability? I commence with a temporary critique of psychometric measurements of intelligence, introducing the concept of a “basic element” or IQ score. The major results worry the balance, validity (predictive electrical power), and heritability of grownup IQ. Next, I talk about ongoing Genome Wide Association Scientific studies which check out the genetic foundation of intelligence. Due generally to the speedily decreasing value of sequencing, it is most likely that inside the subsequent five-ten several years we will determine genes which account for a significant fraction of complete IQ variation. We are presently searching for volunteers for a review of high cognitive potential. Participants will get totally free genotyping. Speaker Data: Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the College of Oregon and Director of its Institute of Theoretical Science. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Yale before relocating to Oregon in 1998. He is also the founder of two Silicon Valley computer software startups in the area of details stability. He serves as Scientific Advisor to the Cognitive Genomics Lab of BGI (previously the Beijing Genomics Institute), a single of the primary genomics investigation facilities in the world.
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I can’t understand how intelligence is measurable in a similar way to height. Intelligence is highly trainable, while height isn’t. If you don’t teach a human to sum or read, they will score very badly in any IQ tests, no matter how intelligent their parents are, right?
Many emotional and preconceived notions as one would expect in a topic like this; however I adjure viewers to watch this with an open mind,noting that Steve is less interested in promoting a particular view than he is in providing a landscape of the current state of research on the topic–which suggests good reason to support many of the mainstream claims of current IQ research. BTW, I was eligible to take part in this study based on the their requirements. but too apathetic to take part.
@arsviatticae
Nothing wrong for me too, but they are not better than average joe =)
This uber smart think he is, that’s my point .
Have a nice day.
@chocobofarmer2021 I hate this thing called ‘emotional intelligence’, when dumbasses good at communication overtake really smart sociophobes in terms of career and relationships, further contributing to the importance of emotions and shit.
@IceFritzLanger What’s wrong about uber-smart men without emotions and friends? They make science instead of partying and boozing. I think it as desirable.
lol, if I have absolute pitch recognition, so what, can I be dumb then?
Well, being intellectually productive is not necessarily linked to a high IQ, there are many smart folks who waste their lives in a very animalistic manner.
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@bookbagged Not really because soon we will have the ability to map the genome of the fetus, don’t you think?
What are the intelligent going to do to the unintelligent? We define success using very narrow parameters. Would Beethoven have passed such an IQ exam or would he have been aborted? What about Rosa Parks and the Chinese man who faced a tank in Tianamen square? The nuclear bomb was also created by very intelligent scientists. This study clearly favors the kind of intelligence peculiar to scientists like the one conducting this study. I find it macabre.
Regression to the mean is key. 10% chance of not regressing. That blows eugenics out of the water.
Damn this was my idea for research
Psychometrics is crap but it can be better
@eug1488
I’m not really a proponent of proactive eugenics, although I believe policies which give rise to dysgenic fertility should be halted.
As for where you draw the line with deportation, that’s a matter for debate and people differ in their opinions. I want to maintain a permenant white majority of 95%+ in all Europeans countries, so whatever deportation policies arrive at that outcome. Generally speaking what we need is a minimization of inflow with the maximum of outflow.
@addendum044 Say we take this early body of research as correct, how does it justify your racist beliefs?(your comment on interracial porn gives these away)
Almost any population group can be subdivided smaller, after you’ve killed* off all the blacks, for having an average lower IQ than whites, would you then start killing* off sub-groups of whites who have lower IQ than the average white IQ? At what point would this division and termination stop?
*Replace with deportation if that’s your thing.
@chocobofarmer2021
>but the fluid intellect becomes stronger as you understand the minutia of the subject.
Again, provide a citation.
>I see a lot of capable people with low self esteem.
Are you going to tie this into race? Blacks have the highest self-esteem out of any racial group and the lowest academic achievement. Asians the lowest and the highest academic achievement.
>I bet they found confidence traits peripheral to intelligence.
[citation needed]
@chocobofarmer2021
>SPECIFIC traits
He did, he tested for psychometric g, which is a verifiable trait at a physiological level.
>students
So you’re a teacher hm? Makes sense. Typical loser job. And on top of that you feel jealous of smart kids who can pass exams easily. Do you fap to interracial porn too? lol. Fucking loser.
>I didn’t HAVE to be super smart
The predictive validity of IQ disagrees with you.
@chocobofarmer2021
How is that sadistic? The definition of sadism is the derivation of pleasure from infliction of pain. How does that factor into talking about designer babies?
>He needs to think that out more or he’s not so intelligent. Seriously.
Complete red herring. If he were so unintelligent you’d be able to dispute his mathematics and genetics rather than just engaging in the tired old leftist tactic of traducing him.
@addendum044 I don’t think any non retard in the population can’t be a theoretical physicist. It’s crystal and fluid intellect but the fluid intellect becomes stronger as you understand the minutia of the subject. Sorry for being hypercritical I am very critical when it comes to intelligence. I see a lot of capable people with low self esteem. Religion for example. I bet they found confidence traits peripheral to intelligence. 50%…I don’t know what that means.
@chocobofarmer2021
Small in comparison to what? Human “intellectualism” (is that even a word?) can only be compared in a ‘within’ sense, it’s not like we have alien species to compare it to.
>Even Physics is simple if you have a solid foundation
You still haven’t provided any citations.
>social ineptness and that is 90% of the polygenic sequence they found.
Yes, it’s just a coincidence it ties in with all the four decades of physiological/kinship evidence.
@addendum044 Just saying. The whole cannon of human intellectualism is small. Being the very model of a modern major general is quite within a dumb persons grasp. Even physics is simple if you have a solid foundation. Look at KhanAcademy stories or listen to Chomksyauthors@google. (15:00)Sure we have geniuses in our bureaucracy. Maybe today’s intelligence requires social ineptness and that is 90% of the polygenic sequence they found.
@addendum044 They should test more SPECIFIC traits. Like memory. I agree the geometries in people’s brains are different but to say getting doped by speed to do better is not believable. He’s just speculating but it shows where he is coming from. I see students all the time that say “do I have to show the work” and go on whining and do very good on tests. I think they’re just little bitches. I could be like that but I pay attention to detail. I didn’t HAVE to be super smart. Just smart.
@addendum044 I’ll wait to see the new studies. It’s much more random. He talks about designer babies with the genius cocktail. I think he’s a little sadistic. He needs to think that out more or he’s not so intelligent. Seriously.
@addendum044
>sadistic and conservative
Ad hom.
>red states and britain
Red herring.
>not going to change my mind
You’ve provided no evidence, your position is ideological (faith in egalitarianism), not scientific. The position of neurological uniformity is one that requires evidence, it’s not default.